Luminous Egg

05/06/2025

https://www.forbes.com/sites/traversmark/2025/06/04/3-ways-to-recognize-your-own-red-flags-by-a-psychologist/

While spotting red flags in others is a helpful form of self-protection, learning to recognize your own is a radical form of self-evolution.

18/05/2025

https://www.independent.co.uk/health-and-fitness/anger-autoimmune-disease-b2752268.html

In the midst of a women’s health crisis, could bottled rage be the source of what ails us?

16/05/2025

A bit of T S Eliot
Thanks ✨

17/03/2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/19yesuT7gp/

I have had a few people mention this blog to me this week, so I thought I would re-share.

"Let what comes come. Let what goes go. See what remains– Ramana Maharshi

The quote above is something that has guided me during particularly tumultuous times on my path. Those times are almost always when I am going through an initiation of some sorts ­– when I have needed to let go of parts of self or ways of being that I was clinging to out of fear or out of habit.

Robert Anton Wilson once said, “beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation”.

I do find this to be true in so many ways. We so often fear change without the recognition that each moment and every decision we make ushers in change. Even without our active participation our body and mind changes (for example, our taste buds change every two weeks and our body replaces about 330 billion cells per day).

Our inherent spiritual nature is one of change and movement. It is our stuckness, typically out of fear and habit, that creates issues in our lives."

Full blog here: https://maryshutan.com/understanding-initiations/

06/03/2025

-menopause

07/01/2025

Greetings from Madeira's awesome ancient laurel forest. Absolutely magical ✨

28/12/2024

What My Bones Know - Stephanie Foo - a wonderful read about healing from

18/12/2024

https://youtu.be/_ZLl8Qye9tM?si=Jq8GiH6_4WDed6LL&sfnsn=scwspmo

This week's solo episode clearly and precisely explains the energy body, or subtle body (sūkṣma-śarīra), as understood in Classical Tantra—the tradition that...

12/11/2024

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When collective energies are intense, it is easy to get subsumed by them.

This type of energetic thrall can be exciting and life-affirming at a soccer game, or when we are at a concert. We are a part of an energy larger than ourselves, and the momentum and emotions of it move through us, carry us, direct us to feel and be in a particular way.

In this way there is an energetic interplay between those on stage, those playing or directing, and those in the audience.

We can experience the beauty, insights, and deep feeling of being in this type of field. It is an experience of oneness, of connection, that can spark something deep within, that can be a catalyst to our individual lives.

It can be less helpful, or may even be incredibly detrimental, if we are held captive by collective energies that subsume us.

In this case we become enthralled by the collective energies of fear, anger, and obsession.

When such collective energies are so powerful and so incredibly evident it makes sense to feel them. To collective sigh, to grieve, to anger, to feel destabilized by doubt.

But when we recognize that we have become engulfed, we can also practice discernment.

We can recognize when we are intertwined with a collective field that has us in its thrall and disengage.

By doing so we can focus on individual feeling, as our individual suffering is something we can validate and tend to.

When we feel powerless and eclipsed by collective energies that as an individual we have little capacity to change, we can move back from the big picture to the small picture.

How we can help to heal ourselves, which then helps bring less woundedness to the whole.

How can we carry forward the energies and actions we wish to towards our families and our communities. Being a bright light in a world that can be so dark can do so much, and has ripple effects that we often lack awareness of.

There is always a place to love, to bring compassion and hope and relief to ourselves and others, no matter how powerful the waves of collective energies are.

Image: The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai (one of my favorite images of all time)

10/10/2024

https://maryshutan.com/progressive-relaxation-meditation/

Progressive Relaxation Meditation by maryshutan | Oct 7, 2024 | Uncategorized | 0 comments You can find the links to these meditations below. Progressive Relaxation Meditation is something that I suggest that anyone learn how to do. Instructions: Follow along with my words, bringing your awareness t...

12/09/2024

https://maryshutan.com/understanding-the-purpose-and-mechanics-of-the-chakras/

Understanding the Purpose and Mechanics of the Chakras by maryshutan | Sep 12, 2024 | Uncategorized | 0 comments Think of your chakras as storehouses of information, about the past, present, and future. Most of our chakras are stuck. They can be stuck closed, open, or be stuck partially open, sort o...

18/06/2024

I've been away training in deepest Dorset. Here is the shrine of St Wite - a healer. Once a major place of pilgrimage, second only to Canterbury for healing. Strangely, the bones were left alone during the reformation.